Steam Disconnecting randomly

[nahemah]

I have googled, MSNed, IRCd, asked, and begged everyone I know to help me with this problem. I'm seriously hoping SOMEONE can give me a clue as to what the heck I'm doing wrong.

Right after CS:Source beta was released, I decided to stop playing CS through Steam for a while. About a week ago, I went to connect to a server, and Steam ran a bunch of updates. When I connected to the server, I was okay.. or at least I thought so....

Within about 1 full minute of game time, I was booted from the server with no error messages. Steam didn't crash completely, but I was disconnected from the server and dumped back at the menu. I connected to a few different random servers to make sure it wasn't server-specific, and the same thing happened.

I read some documentation on deleting ClientRegistry.blob, then restarting Steam so that it would run the updates again, and even after doing that it didn't work.

So, I decided to get adventurous, and install Point2Play using cedega and transgaming. Everything appears to have installed and now, I'm getting exception errors every time I turn around.

I read some more that I needed to have installed SteamInstaller_cs.exe instead of SteamInstaller.exe, so I went ahead and downloaded SteamInstaller_cs.exe and installed that. Even though I lose the exception, I still get booted from the server for no reason whatsoever. I'm so frustrated at this point. I've spent about 3 days looking through forums and trying out solutions that seemed to have worked for other people.

I finally, tonight, found a dll file that needed to be installed on the windows drive where CS is stored. Even doing that didn't fix the problem. I hear that the support for Steam sucks and that I should just give up and buy another copy of the software, but that just seems silly...

PLEASE if anyone has any ideas, please please please help me. At this point, I dont even really care about the game, but figuring out how to fix this in the future would be fantastic.

cheers - nahemah

[Jamoe]

first things first, welcome to our forums and enjoy your stay.  

EDIT: read Bluebells post underneither befor doing mine

Your best bet is probably to delete all the gfc files and start from scratch. Download all the files you need over steam. You could try just deleteing the cs and hl ones.  You steam account wil know that what you are entitled to play and let you down load them.

Although that might not be viable if you are on dialup.

[Anonymous]

Welcome to our little club. Hope you enjoy playing here (well you will once we move our servers in a couple of weeks and the lag disappears)

To answer your question:

Do you have a router? If so have a look here (it was a steam update that caused this problem - my Linksys worked fine and then one day OOF! you have to install a certain firmware version to connect)

[FBG]

Yes it sounds like it could be that router issue. If so then that thread is all well and good but it doesn't display the solution very well, or at least the one that worked for me and because of a bug in steam its a rather intermittant fix unless you do the following.

Bring up the steam menu where you can launch your games, right click on the game in question and then select the advanced options.

Add
+clientport 27007

Note, You might want to check the syntax of that command and also the port number. Search the forums on steam(when there up again).

Then you *HAVE* to start the game from the game menu, you cannot launch the game from the servers menu! If you launch CS by clicking on a server your settings are not used! (well it certainly seems that way to me).

Once you've launched CS you can use the server menu there.

This fix also works for CZ

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